Sen. Sherrod Brown took a a sports talk-radio friendly view Friday morning on the news that the Cleveland Browns’ owners plan to move the team from downtown Cleveland to Brook Park, which sits about a dozen miles south off of Interstate 71.“The Cleveland Browns should be in Cleveland,” Brown told reporters after a campaign event.Brown also has leveraged the situation to remind voters that the major donors to his Republican challenger, businessman Bernie Moreno, include the Browns’ billionaire owners, Jimmy and Dee Haslam. The couple each gave $50,000 to a Moreno-affiliated political committee in August, when they hosted a fundraiser for Moreno at their home in Bratenahl. Brown said that Moreno should join him in urging the team to stay in Cleveland. But asked if he thinks there’s a policy solution to address the situation, he said he doesn’t view it as something that falls under “the role of government.” He also didn’t elaborate on his views on why he thinks the team shouldn’t move, given that they’re staying in the same general area, beyond the previous statement in this article.Signal has reached out to Moreno’s campaign seeking comment.Brown talked football Friday morning following an appearance in suburban Delaware County, just north of Columbus. He otherwise called attention to public comments Moreno made in late September in which Moreno called suburban women “single-issue voters” who only cared about abortion. Moreno also flippantly said it was “crazy” that any woman over 50 – or outside of reproductive age – should care about the issue.The Brown campaign lined up several Republican and independent voters to talk about Moreno’s comments. The speakers included Marcie Seidel, who previously was former Ohio First Lady Hope Taft’s chief of staff. Moreno, who opposes abortion, has said through his campaign that his comments were meant as a joke. Brown’s campaign has cut them into campaign commercials as they appeal to suburban and women voters, a key bloc of support for Brown to be reelected.Brown pointed out to reporters that Seidel’s old boss, former Republican Gov. Bob Taft, was the only person to whom he’s ever lost an election. Taft defeated Brown to become Ohio Secretary of State in the 1990 election. Brown now is facing Moreno in the Nov. 5 election in the most hotly contested Senate race in the country.The event was only attended by a handful of people. Among them were Rich and Dawn Martinski, who said they both are conservative Republicans who have become alienated with the party’s direction since former president Donald Trump’s election in 2016.Mr. Martinski, who worked in former Gov. John Kasich’s administration, said he feels Brown provides “balance” to government, while Mrs. Martinski said she thinks Brown has “family values.” “Moreno and Trump, they both are very demeaning to women, and as a woman and as for my daughter, I can’t vote for someone who talks about women like we’re not equal,” she said.The post U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown says Browns should stay in Cleveland appeared first on Signal Cleveland.First published by Signal Cleveland.